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...main latent in the body for some time, but when it becomes active and begins to multiply (a process known as "shedding"), it becomes transmissible to others, particularly through sexual activity. HSV-2 is a common infection--20 to 25...

...disease in which the lining of the large intestine becomes inflamed and ulcerated, and most commonly affects people between 15 and 40 years of age. Ulcerative colitis can be attributed to an immune disorder or heredity, among other things, and is characterized by abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea and fever....

... die, says Professor Grayling. The same right becomes more difficult to apply when the decision to withdraw life prolonging treatment falls to a third party - for instance when the patient is incapacitated and there is no living will. If there is disagreement among third parties, the decision ...

...ast cancer earlier, before it starts to spread and becomes more life-threatening, according to a new study by Christopher Li, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, published in the April issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention. "The results of this study sugge...

..."The more stress you have, the lower the threshold becomes for exciting these hypocretin neurons." Horvath and co-author Xiao-Bing Gao, assistant professor in Ob/Gyn, studied hypocretin/orexin neurons in mice using electrophysiology and electron microscopy. They found a unique, previously un-described orga...

... it also re-shapes the left ventricle, which often becomes distended and misshapen after a heart attack or infection attacks the heart muscle. Nearly 5 million Americans have congestive heart failure, and the number is expected to climb. "Congestive heart failure is a ventricular disease, but previous effort...

...nefit from extra emotional support. "When a woman becomes pregnant after a loss, that pregnancy is a very different experience," says Cote-Arsenault, "but the care she receives isn't necessarily different. These women are in a very different place. Most are emotionally guarded. Many experience high anxiet...

... angiographic measurement of how narrow the vessel becomes after treatment between women and men. And yet, contrary to previous reports, the study also showed that doctors re-intervene in female patients twice as often as in men. Dr. Lansky says the higher re-intervention rate in women may be related to ...

...matched normal ears. "Ear surgery, which sometimes becomes necessary, is not hazardous for hearing, as such, but in the case of chronic middle ear infection may be insufficient to retain normal hearing or restore it to normal levels," the authors write. At the 14 years' follow-up 177 (74.7 percent) of the c...

...olyp removal," Turkelson says. If CT colonography becomes more popular as a colorectal cancer screening test, the resulting increase in follow-up colonoscopies "could be quite substantial," according to the report. "Patients must already wait months for an available appointment for routine colonoscopy, and ...

...only the tip of the iceberg," added Dr. Robin. "It becomes a life-and-death situation for doctors to educate and motivate their patients on their therapy and with glaucoma; this may lead to visual disability and blindness." Dr. Robin's study suggests that eye diseases including glaucoma are one of the five c...

...aints from legitimate injuries. So, Hall says, "it becomes very important to understand the nature of those symptoms that are likely to be real and who is likely to be producing fictitious symptoms." The review finds that well-motivated, younger patients, who experience no loss of consciousness, are less lik...

...f metamaterials witha negative index of refraction becomes more difficult as one aimsfor higher, more practical, frequencies, such as those in thevisible spectrum. Now, a collaboration between the University ofKarlsruhe in Germany and Iowa State University is reporting ametamaterial designed for electromagn...

...fects in this gene and the previous gene, swimming becomes a potentially dangerous situation." The mutations or genetic glitches in RyR2 are undetectable with a regular electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG). The heart rhythm condition resulting from such genetic glitches is called catecholaminergic polymorphic vent...

...for it. For the unmotivated exerciser, an obstacle becomes a good excuse to do nothing. It's a mindset." Of all the participants, boomer-age women (40 to 55) tended to have the highest activity level and awareness of the benefits of exercise. "They are leading the way in being very health-conscious," Dr. Cou...

...oliferating but not infiltrating normal tissue, it becomes more pronounced as the cancer progresses to the invasive stage. Therefore, the genes involved and the proteins they produce may become markers that physicians can use to determine disease progression and patient prognosis. They also may become target...

...o afraid of falling that they avoid activities. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. They become weak and they fall." Fear of falling was "surprisingly high" among middle-aged African-Americans who live in the inner city. About one in three people feared falling, making the fear as common among these middl...

...Hughes says. "Quite the opposite." "As information becomes available, we have to be ready to modify these regulations and best practices for safety," he continues. "If we're doing complementary studies that help to support this line of new materials and integrate those into human safety regulations, then the...

...heir sleep architecture changes, sleep by no means becomes less significant." Study Design A total of 829 older adults (ages 6493 years) were enrolled in a randomized, double-blind, 5-week study. Participants received bedtime administration of one of three treatments: ramelteon 4 or 8 mg, or placebo. Study...